Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
Unfortunately xlc 12.1 and earlier don't support -qvisibility. Therefore
be7c15b194 doesn't suffice to make extension libraries work without the
explicit mkldexport step removed in fe6a64a58a. While 12.1 is EOL, there is
some desire to leave buildfarm animals using it run a bit longer. But instead
of adding back the complicated mkldexport step, we can use -Wl,-b,expfull to
force all symbols to be exported.
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2490844.1663123546@sss.pgh.pa.us
It looks like icc and sunpro both support -fvisibility=hidden and xlc supports
-qvisibility=hidden. I tested this on AIX and solaris with their proprietary
compilers as well as gcc, and with gcc or clang on freebsd, linux, macos,
netbsd and openbsd.
Apparently my prior commit fe6a64a58a only works in combination with this
patch. While I tried to test them separately, an unknown caching issue
prevented me from noticing the problem.
Per discussion with Tom Lane and buildfarm member hoverfly.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220910052741.t7w7csyrggwus2ze%40awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220820174213.d574qde4ptwdzoqz@awork3.anarazel.de
SUSv3 <netinet/in.h> defines struct sockaddr_in6, and all targeted Unix
systems have it. Windows has it in <ws2ipdef.h>. Remove the configure
probe, the macro and a small amount of dead code.
Also remove a mention of IPv6-less builds from the documentation, since
there aren't any.
This is similar to commits f5580882 and 077bf2f2 for Unix sockets. Even
though AF_INET6 is an "optional" component of SUSv3, there are no known
modern operating system without it, and it seems even less likely to be
omitted from future systems than AF_UNIX.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGKErNfhmvb_H0UprEmp4LPzGN06yR2_0tYikjzB-2ECMw@mail.gmail.com
Remove four probes for members of sockaddr_storage. Keep only the probe
for sockaddr's sa_len, which is enough for our two remaining places that
know about _len fields:
1. ifaddr.c needs to know if sockaddr has sa_len to understand the
result of ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF). Only AIX is still using the relevant code
today, but it seems like a good idea to keep it compilable on Linux.
2. ip.c was testing for presence of ss_len to decide whether to fill in
sun_len in our getaddrinfo_unix() function. It's just as good to test
for sa_len. If you have one, you have them all.
(The code in #2 isn't actually needed at all on several OSes I checked
since modern versions ignore sa_len on input to system calls. Proving
that's the case for all relevant OSes is left for another day, but
wouldn't get rid of that last probe anyway if we still want it for #1.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJJjF2AqdU_Aug5n2MAc1gr%3DGykNjVBZq%2Bd6Jrcp3Dyvg%40mail.gmail.com
configure extracts TCL_SHLIB_LD_LIBS from tclConfig.sh, and puts the
value into Makefile.global, but then we never use it anywhere. It
looks like I removed the only usage in cd75f94da, but didn't notice
that it was the only usage. Might as well mop this up while we're
trying to get rid of unnecessary configure steps.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2442359.1660835043@sss.pgh.pa.us
On BSD-family systems, header <sys/sockio.h> defines socket ioctl
numbers like SIOCGIFCONF. Only AIX is using those now, but it defines
them in <net/if.h> anyway.
Supposing some PostgreSQL hacker wants to test that AIX-only code path
on a more common development system by pretending not to have
getifaddrs(). It's enough to include <sys/ioctl.h>, at least on macOS,
FreeBSD and Linux, and we're already doing that.
SUSv3, all targeted Unixes and modern Windows have getaddrinfo() and
related interfaces. Drop the replacement implementation, and adjust
some headers slightly to make sure that the APIs are visible everywhere
using standard POSIX headers and names.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
Assume that we can use LWARX hint flags and the LWSYNC instruction
on any PPC machine. The check on the assembler's behavior was only
needed for Apple's old assembler, which is no longer of interest
now that we've de-supported all PPC-era versions of macOS (thanks
to them not having clock_gettime()). Also, given an up-to-date
assembler these instructions work even on Apple's old hardware.
It seems quite unlikely that anyone would be interested in running
current Postgres on PPC hardware that's so old as to not have
these instructions.
Hence, rip out associated configure test and manual configuration
options, and just use the modernized instructions all the time.
Also, update atomics/arch-ppc.h to use these instructions as well.
(It was already using LWSYNC unconditionally in another place,
providing further proof that nobody is using PG on hardware old
enough to have a problem with that.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166622.1660323391@sss.pgh.pa.us
<sys/resource.h> is in SUSv2 and is on all targeted Unix systems. We
have a replacement for getrusage() on Windows, so let's just move its
declarations into src/include/port/win32/sys/resource.h so that we can
use a standard-looking #include. Also remove an obsolete reference to
CLK_TCK. Also rename src/port/getrusage.c to win32getrusage.c,
following the convention for Windows-only fallback code.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
<sys/un.h> is in SUSv3 and every targeted Unix has it. Some Windows
tool chains may still lack the approximately equivalent header
<afunix.h>, so we already defined struct sockaddr_un ourselves on that
OS for now. To harmonize things a bit, move our definition into a new
header src/include/port/win32/sys/un.h.
HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS is now defined unconditionally. We migh remove that
in a separate commit, pending discussion.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
<sys/uio.h> is in SUSv2, and all targeted Unix system have it, so we
might as well drop the probe (in fact we never really needed this one).
It's where struct iovec is defined, and as a common extension, it's also
where non-standard preadv() and pwritev() are declared on systems that
have them.
We should also be able to assume that IOV_MAX is defined on Unix.
To spell out what our pg_iovec.h header does for the OSes in the build
farm as of today:
Windows: our own struct and functions
Solaris, Cygwin: <sys/uio.h>'s struct, our own functions
Every other Unix: <sys/uio.h>'s struct and functions
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
At some point in the past some headers (net/if.h on some BSDs in 2009,
netinet/tcp.h on IRIX in 2000, sys/ucred.h in 2013 on then older openbsd),
only compiled if other heades were included first, complicating configure
tests. More recent tests indicate that that's not required anymore.
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220807012914.ydz73yte6j3coulo@awork3.anarazel.de
Previously we fell back to __FUNCTION__ and then NULL. As __func__ is in C99
that shouldn't be necessary anymore.
Solution.pm defined HAVE_FUNCNAME__FUNCTION instead of
HAVE_FUNCNAME__FUNC (originating in 4164e6636e), as at some point in the past
MSVC only supported __FUNCTION__. Our minimum version supports __func__.
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220807012914.ydz73yte6j3coulo@awork3.anarazel.de
strtof() is in C99 and all targeted systems have it. We can remove the
configure probe and some dead code, but we still need replacement code
for a couple of systems that have known buggy implementations selected
via platform template.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152683.1659830125%40sss.pgh.pa.us
There's no known supported system needing 1 argument gettimeofday()
support. The test for it was added a long time ago (92c6bf9775). Remove.
Until now we tested whether a gettimeofday() fallback is needed when
targetting windows. Which lead to the odd result that HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY only
being defined when targetting MinGW (which has gettimeofday() since at least
2007). As the fallback is specific to msvc, remove the configure code and
rename src/port/gettimeofday.c to src/port/win32gettimeofday.c.
While at it, also remove the definition of struct timezone, a forward
declaration of the struct is sufficient.
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220806000311.ywx65iuchvj4qn2k@awork3.anarazel.de
strtoll was backfilled with either __strtoll or strtoq on systems without
strtoll. The last such system on the buildfarm was an ancient HP-UX animal. We
don't support HP-UX anymore, so remove.
On other systems strtoll was present, but did not have a declaration. The last
known instance on the buildfarm was running an ancient OSX and shut down in
2019.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220804013546.h65najrzig764jar@awork3.anarazel.de
clock_gettime() is in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have it.
Remove a chunk of fallback code for old Unix is no longer reachable on
modern systems, and untested as of the retirement of build farm animal
prairiedog.
There is no need to retain a HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME macro here, because it
is already used in a context with Unix and Windows code paths.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
preadv() and pwritev() are not standardized by POSIX, but appeared in
NetBSD in 1999 and were adopted by at least OpenBSD, FreeBSD,
DragonFlyBSD, Linux, AIX, illumos and macOS. We don't use them much
yet, but an active proposal uses them heavily.
In 15, we had two replacement implementations for other OSes: one based
on lseek() + -v function if available for true vector I/O, and the other
based on a loop over p- function.
The former would be an obstacle to hypothetical future multi-threaded
code sharing file descriptors, while the latter would not, since commit
cf112c12. Furthermore, the number of targeted systems that could
benefit from the former's potential upside has dwindled to just one
niche OS, since macOS added the functions and we de-supported HP-UX.
That doesn't seem like a good trade-off.
Therefore, drop the lseek()-based variant, and also the pg_ prefix now
that the file position portability hazard is gone.
At the time of writing, the only systems in our build farm that lack
native preadv/pwritev and thus use fallback code are:
* Solaris (but not illumos)
* macOS before release 11.0
* Windows
With this commit, the above systems will now use the *same* fallback
code, the version that loops over pread()/pwrite(). Windows already
used that (though a later proposal may include true vector I/O for
Windows), so this decision really only affects Solaris, until it gets
around to adding these system calls.
Also remove some useless includes while here.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
pread() and pwrite() are in SUSv2, and all targeted Unix systems have
them.
Previously, we defined pg_pread and pg_pwrite to emulate these function
with lseek() on old Unixen. The names with a pg_ prefix were a reminder
of a portability hazard: they might change the current file position.
That hazard is gone, so we can drop the prefixes.
Since the remaining replacement code is Windows-only, move it into
src/port/win32p{read,write}.c, and move the declarations into
src/include/port/win32_port.h.
No need for vestigial HAVE_PREAD, HAVE_PWRITE macros as they were only
used for declarations in port.h which have now moved into win32_port.h.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
setenv() and unsetenv() are in SUSv3 and targeted Unix systems have
them. We still need special code for these on Windows, but that doesn't
require a configure probe.
This marks the first time we require a SUSv3 (POSIX.1-2001) facility
(rather than SUSv2). The replacement code removed here was not needed
on any targeted system or any known non-EOL'd Unix system, and was
therefore dead and untested.
No need for vestigial HAVE_SETENV and HAVE_UNSETENV macros, because we
provide a replacement for Windows, and we didn't previously test the
macros.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
poll() and <poll.h> are in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have
them.
Retain HAVE_POLL and HAVE_POLL_H macros for readability. There's an
error in latch.c that is now unreachable (since we always have one of
WIN32 or HAVE_POLL defined), but that falls out of a decision to keep
using defined(HAVE_POLL) instead of !defined(WIN32) to guard the poll()
code.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
link() is in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have it. We have
replacement code for Windows that doesn't require a configure probe.
Since only Windows needs it, rename src/port/link.c to win32link.c like
other similar things.
There is no need for a vestigial HAVE_LINK macro, because we expect all
Unix and, with our replacement function, Windows systems to have it, so
we didn't have any tests around link() usage.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
symlink() and readlink() are in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have
them. We have partial emulation on Windows. Code that raised runtime
errors on systems without it has been dead for years, so we can remove
that and also references to such systems in the documentation.
Define HAVE_READLINK and HAVE_SYMLINK macros on Unix. Our Windows
replacement functions based on junction points can't be used for
relative paths or for non-directories, so the macros can be used to
check for full symlink support. The places that deal with tablespaces
can just use symlink functions without checking the macros. (If they
did check the macros, they'd need to provide an #else branch with a
runtime or compile time error, and it'd be dead code.)
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
setsid() is in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have it. Retain a
HAVE_SETSID macro, defined on Unix only. That's easier to understand
than !defined(WIN32), for the optional code it governs.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
shm_open() is in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have it.
We retain a HAVE_SHM_OPEN macro, because it's clearer to readers than
something like !defined(WIN32).
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
getrlimit() is in SUSv2 and all targeted systems have it.
Windows doesn't have it. We could just use #ifndef WIN32, but for a
little more explanation about why we're making things conditional, let's
retain the HAVE_GETRLIMIT macro. It's defined in port.h for Unix systems.
On systems that have it, it's not necessary to test for RLIMIT_CORE,
RLIMIT_STACK or RLIMIT_NOFILE macros, since SUSv2 requires those and all
targeted systems have them. Also remove references to a pre-historic
alternative spelling of RLIMIT_NOFILE, and coding that seemed to believe
that Cygwin didn't have it.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
dlopen() is in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have it. We still
need replacement functions for Windows, but we don't need a configure
probe for that.
Since it's no longer needed by other operating systems, rename dlopen.c
to win32dlopen.c and move the declarations into win32_port.h.
Likewise, the macros RTLD_NOW and RTLD_GLOBAL now only need to be
defined on Windows, since all targeted Unix systems have 'em.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
sigwait() is in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have it. An earlier
pre-standard function prototype existed on some older systems, but we
no longer need a workaround for that.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
getrusage() is in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have it.
Note that POSIX only covers ru_utime and ru_stime and we rely on many
more fields without any kind of configure probe, but that predates this
commit.
The only supported system we need replacement code for now is Windows,
and that can be done without a configure probe.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
Commit 4f658dc8 provided the traditional BSD fls() function in
src/port/fls.c so it could be used in several places. Later we added a
bunch of similar facilities in pg_bitutils.h, based on compiler
builtins that map to hardware instructions. It's a bit confusing to
have both 1-based and 0-based variants of this operation in use in
different parts of the tree, and neither is blessed by a standard.
Let's drop fls.c and the configure probe, and reuse the newer code.
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B7dSX1XF8yFGmYk-%3D48dbjH2kmzZj16XvhbrWP-9BzRg%40mail.gmail.com
Windows 10 gained support for flushing NTFS files with fdatasync()
semantics. The main advantage over open_datasync (in Windows API terms
FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH) is that the latter does not flush SATA drive
caches. The default setting is not changed, so users have to opt in to
this.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJZJVO%3DiX%2Beb-PXi2_XS9ZRqnn_4URh0NUQOwt6-_51xQ%40mail.gmail.com
Until now postgres built extension libraries with global visibility, i.e.
exporting all symbols. On the one platform where that behavior is not
natively available, namely windows, we emulate it by analyzing the input files
to the shared library and exporting all the symbols therein.
Not exporting all symbols is actually desirable, as it can improve loading
speed, reduces the likelihood of symbol conflicts and can improve intra
extension library function call performance. It also makes the non-windows
builds more similar to windows builds.
Additionally, with meson implementing the export-all-symbols behavior for
windows, turns out to be more verbose than desirable.
This patch adds support for hiding symbols by default and, to counteract that,
explicit symbol visibility annotation for compilers that support
__attribute__((visibility("default"))) and -fvisibility=hidden. That is
expected to be most, if not all, compilers except msvc (for which we already
support explicit symbol export annotations).
Now that extension library symbols are explicitly exported, we don't need to
export all symbols on windows anymore, hence remove that behavior from
src/tools/msvc. The supporting code can't be removed, as we still need to
export all symbols from the main postgres binary.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211101020311.av6hphdl6xbjbuif@alap3.anarazel.de
No members of the buildfarm are using this version of Visual Studio,
resulting in all the code cleaned up here as being mostly dead, and
VS2017 is the oldest version still supported.
More versions could be cut, but the gain would be minimal, while
removing only VS2013 has the advantage to remove from the core code all
the dependencies on the value defined by _MSC_VER, where compatibility
tweaks have accumulated across the years mostly around locales and
strtof(), so that's a nice isolated cleanup.
Note that this commit additionally allows a revert of 3154e16. The
versions of Visual Studio now supported range from 2015 to 2022.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Juan José Santamaría Flecha, Tom Lane, Thomas Munro, Justin
Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YoH2IMtxcS3ncWn+@paquier.xyz
HP-UX hardware is no longer produced, build farm coverage recently
ended, and there are no known active maintainers targeting this OS.
Since there is a major rewrite of the build system in the pipeline for
PostgreSQL 16, and that requires development, testing and maintainance
for each OS and tool chain, it seems like a good time to drop support
for:
* HP-UX, the operating system.
* HP aCC, the HP-UX native compiler.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1415825.1656893299%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Andres Freund
Thomas Munro
Tom Lane
Michael Paquier